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the carolina watchman vol vii third series salisbury m c august 17.1876 k0 44 ' â€ž k ., \\ kkkia-j 1 bruner eu and propr t k bruner associate fa .,{ iis.ru u'tion hates : n^vrir payable iln advance 2 00 rer i â€¢-'.â– .' â– , a â€¢â– â€¢ j 2s advertising rates : *- d . .. [ w i publications 1 50 r months or a 3 ear platform ofthe democratic par ty in north carolina adopted by the democratic state con vention at raleigh on 14th june 1876 whereas the republican party of he united states for the la6t sixteen year baa u *& l e complete control of in all its departments nd by its disregard of constitutional limi tation ; by its unequal aud oppressive taxation ; by it8 extravagant and waste fâ€žl expenditures ; by its unwise and mis : hievon financial policy by its unexam pled illici.tl corruption pervading all hcancbee of its administration â€” has broughl difgrace upon our government w d unp iralieled distress upon our people â– ', 1 that in this centennial year of our existence we invite all patriots n ignore all dead issues to disregard the a engendered by the past events am ] 10 unite with us in tbe effort to restore a constitutional honest economical and pore administration of the government aud thus promote the general welfare aud happiness of tbe country â€¢ '. 2 tbat we earnestly and cor ilia v recommend tbe adoption by the people of the amendments tÂ«i the consti tution proposed by the convention of l*>75 and thus largely reduce tbe expenditures of oar state and county governments and simplify their administration so that we oav be enabled to establish a thorough and enlarged system of public schools for the benefit of all the citizens of the state i ',',. that notwithstanding our disappointments and impovished condition we still cherish the north car olina project bo long labored for by more bead sauuders fisher wm ii thomas and others of uniting the harbors of beau fort and wilmington witb the gieat west and for tbe completion of the western north carolina railroad to paint beck and dicktown and of our unfinished rail roads we pledge the continued use of the convict labor of tbe state and of such other judicious legislative aid as will se cure the completion of these great state winks at tbe earliest practicable period 1 4 th.it the people of north carolina now hive it in their power by 111 earnest determinated and unit d effort to relieve our people from the evils of re publican misrule extravagance and cor ruption aud restore the prosperity of our state .' ',. that we denounce official ccnupiiou wherever found and we bold honesty to b the first and highest quali fication for i.llice gov hendricks's letter the enormities of the system that threat ens our instil t/ions ixdiaxapolis july 24 1s7g gentlemen : i have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commu nication in which you have formally no tified tne of my nomination by the na tional democratic convention at st lotus as their candidate for the office of ice-president of the united states it i a nomination which 1 had neither ex pected nor desired ; and yet i recognize j appreciate the high honor done me bf tbe convention the choice of such â€¢Â» body pronounced wiih such unusual uiiaiiimit v and accompanied with eo gen erou an expression of esteem and confi dence ought to out-weigh all merely personal desires and preferences of my wu it is with this feeling and i trust w from a deep sense of public duty bat i now acccept the nomination and all abide the judgment of my country men j j it would have been impossible for me to accept the nomination if i could not warily endorse the platform of the con hjhiou i am grajjfie therefore to be we unequivocally to declare that i agree d jÂ»e principles approve the politics i'd sympathize with iho purposes enun e in that platform * be institutions of our country have wen gorely tried by the exigencies of civ ar > an uince the peace by a selfish * nd corrupt management of public affairs ten has bhamed us before civilized nankiud by unwi8e ai)li lvi \ | egig . tiou every industry and interest of the p eo ple have been made to suffer ; and in e executive departments of the govern e t dishonesty rapacity and venality k av Â« debauched the public service men no * n t0 be unworthy have been pro m h while others have been degraded r fi k dellt y to official duty public office r been made the means of private prof Â«. and the country has been offended to j e > class of turn who boast the friend pol the sworn protectors of the state 5 88 ng fortunes by defrauding the pub treaatuy and by corrupting the ser , 4l " i the people iii such a crisis of je history of the country i rejoice tbat convention at st louis has so nobly ed the standard of refoitn nothing tintl i wdi wilh us or â– vilh our affilil!5 n " ie public conscience shocked by pjj normou8 evils and abuses which mlj 5 ' u " ' jave demanded and com .. '|" : â– (;. uuspaiiing reformation of our tiooal administration in its bead aud ' r members in such a reformation e removal ofa single officer even the eaideut \ b comparatively a trifling â€¢'''â€¢. if the system which he presents has fostered hm as be has ed it ii suffered tg raoiaiit the president alone must not be made the scapegoat for the enormities of the system which infects the public service and threatens the destruction of our institu tions in some respects 1 hold tbat the present executive has been the victim rather than ihe author of that vicious sys tem congressional and party leaders have been stronger than the president no one man could have created it and the removal of no one man can amend it it is thoroughly corrupt and must be s weept remorselessly away by the selection of a government composed of elements entirely new and pledged to radical re form reforms needed the first work of reform must eviden tly be the restoration of the normal oper ation of the constitution of the united states with all its amendments the necessities of war eatinot be pleaded in a time of peace ; the right of local self-gov ernment as guaranteed by the constitution of the u:iiou must be everywhere restor ed and the centrilized almost personal imperialism which has been practised must be done away or the first principles of the republic will be lost our financial system of expedients must be reformed gold and silver are the real standard of values and our national currency will not be a perfect medium of exchange until it shall be convertible at the pleasure of the holders as i have heretofore said no one desires a return to specie payments more earnestly than i do ; but 1 do not believe that it will or can be reached in harmony witb the in terests of the people by artificial measures for the contraction of the 2uÂ«rency any more than i believe that wealth or per manent prosperity can be created by an initiation of the currency the laws of finance cannot be disregarded with im punity the financial policy ofthe gov ern incut if indeed it deserves the name of policy at all has been disregarded of those laws and therefore hasdisturbed commer cial and business confidence as well as hindered a ruturn to specie payments one feature of that policy was the resump tion clause of the act of ls7o which has embarrassed the country by the anticipa tion of a compulsory resumption for which no preparation has been made and with out any assurance tbat would be practi cable the repeal ol that clause is ne cessary that the natural operation of finan cial laws may be restored that the busi ness of the country may be relieved from its disturbing and depressing influence and that a return to specie payments may be facilitated by the substitution of wiser and more prudent legislation which shall mainly rely on a judicious system of pub lic economies and official retrenchments and above all on the promotion of pros perity iu all the industries of the people i do not understand tbe repeal of tbe res utnp tion clause ol the act of 1s75 to be a backward step in our return to specie payments but the recovery of a false step and although the repeal ni ay for a time be prevented yet the determination ofthe democratic party on this subject has now been distinctly declared there should be no hindrances put in the way of a re turn to specie payments as such a hindrance says the platform of the st louis convention we denounce the re sumption clause of the act of 1s7.5 and de mand its repeal i thoroughly believe that by public economy by official retrenchments and by wise finance enabling us to accumulate the precious metals resumption at an early period is possible without produc ing an artificial scarcity of currency or disturbing public or commercial credit and that these reforms together with the restoration of pure government will re store general confidence encourage the useful investment of capital furnish em ployment to labor and relieve tbe coun try from tbe paralysis of hard times oue industries with the industries of the people there have been frequent interferences our platform truly says that many industries have been impoverished to subsidize a few our commerce has been degraded to an inferior position on the high seas ; manufactures bave been diminished ; ag riculture has been embarrassed and tbe distress of the industrial classes demands tbat these things shall be reformed the burdens of the people must also be lighteued by a great change iu our sys tem of public expenses the profligate expenditures which increased taxation from five dollars per capita in 1s60 to eighteen dollars in 1s70 tells its own story of our need of fiscal reform ouv treaties witb foreign powers should also be revised and amended in so far as they leave citizens of foreign birth in any particular less secure in any country on earth than they would be if they had been born on our own soil ; and the ini quitous coolie system which through the agency of wealthy companies imports chinese bondmen aud establishes a species of ciavery aud interferes with the just rewards of labor on our pacific coast should be utterly abolished iu the reform of our civil service i most heartily indorse that section of tho plat form which declares that the civil service ought not to be subject to change at every election and that it ought not to be made the brief reward of party zeal but ought to be awarded for proved com petency and held for fidelity in the public employ i hope never again to sec the cruel and remorseless proscription fair po litical opinions which has disgraced the administration of the last eight years bad as the civil setvice now is as all know it has some meu of tried integrity aud proved ability such men and such men only should be retained in office j but no man should be retained ou any consideration who has prostituted his office to the purposes of partisans intimi dation or compulsion or who bas furnish ed money to corrupt the elections this i to our common schools i have only this to say : that in my judgment the man or party that would involve our schools m political or sectarian controversy is an enemy to the schools the common schools are safer tinder the protecting care of all the people than under the con trol of any party or sect they must be neither sectarian nor partisan and there must be neither division nor niisappro priation of the funds for their support â€” likewise i regard tlie man who would arouse or foster sectional animosities aud antagonisms among his countrymen as a dangerous enemy to his country all the people must be made to feel and know that once more there is established a pur pose and policy under which all citizens of every condition race and color will be secure in the enjoyment of whatever rights the constitution and laws declare or re cognize ; aud that in controversies that may arise the government is not a parti san but within its constitutional authori ty the just and powerful guardian of the lightb and safety of all the strife be tween races will cease as soon as the power of the evil is taken away from a party that makes political gafin out of sceues of violence and bloodshed and the constitutional authority is placed iu the hands of men whose political welfare re*a quires peace and good order shall be pre served everywhere gov tilden it will be seen gentlemen that i am in eutire accord with the platform of the convention by which i have been nom inated as a candidate for the office of vice-president of the united states â€” permit me in conclusion to express my satisfaction at being associated with a candidate for the presidency who is first among his equals as a representative of the spirit and of the achievements of ro form in his official career as the ex eciuive of the great state of new york he has in a comparatively short period reformed the public service and reduced i the public burdens so as to have earned al once the gratitude ol bis siate and the admiration of the country the peo ple kuow bim to be thoroughly in ear nest ; he has shown himself to be possess ed of powers and qualities which fit him in an eminent degree for the great work of reformation which this couulry now needs ; and if lie shall be chosen by un people to the high office of president of | tbe united states i believe that the day i of his inaugural ion will bo the beginning j of a new era of peace juri 13 and pros i perity in all departments of our govern : ment i am gentlemen your obedient servant thomas a hendricks to the hon john a mcclernand chair man and others of the committee of the national democratic convention the mississippi trouble two reports by tiie con gress inquiry committee the republican majority report charg ing the disorders to democrats â€” the very different vie/v taken by the minority washington aug 7 the report presented by senator bout well in behalf ' of the majority of the mississippi inves ! tigating committee reaches the conclu sion that tbe present legislature of mis sissippi was elected by fraud and intimi dation and is therefore not a legal body j the resignation of gov ames was ille gally effected by this body ; that gov ames is not amenable to any just charge affecting his integrity or fitness a3 chief magistrate : that there was no foundation for reports that negroes were armed or were arming and massing in large bodies for the destruction of the whites there being no such organizations and tbe ne 1 groes were not armed generally : that i outrages were perpetrated iu tbe counties of alcorn amite chickasaw claiborne clay copiah de soto grenada hinds holmes kemper lee loundes madison marshall monroe moxubce rankin scott warren washington and yazoo : and that the democratic victory in the state was due to the outrages so perpetuated if in the counties named there had been a free election republican candidates would have beeu chosen ; that the state of mississippi is at present under the control of political organizations com posed largely of armed men whose com mon purpose is to deprive the negroes of tho free exercise of their right of suffrage that tliese organizations will if left to themselves retain control by force and fraud ; that the powers of the national government will be invoked and should be exercised in order to make good its guarantee of a republican form of gov ernment to the state of mississippi tbe report concludes : the measures necessary and possible in an exigency are three first laws may be passed by congress for the protection of citizens in the respective states ; second states in anarchy or wherein the affairs are controlled by bodies of armed men should be denied representation in congress ; third the constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government to every state will require the united states if these disorders increase or even continue and all milder measures shall prove ineffectual to re mand the state to a territorial condition and through a system of public education and kin dred means change the ideas of tho inhabitants and reconstruct the government on a republi can basis the minority of the committee messrs bayard and mcdonald present their views at length tbey bay that while writing thenx lhev re wi .:*-â– ' ..*â€¢ - j is done and has been done in almost every county of the land it ia a blight upon the morals of the country and ought to be reformed our schools of sectional contentions and in respect regret the message of the president of july 31 transmitting to congress certain correspondence relating to the murders lately committed at hamburg ia which he says : but recently a committee of the senate of the united states visited the state of mississip pi to take testimony on the subject of frauds and violence in elections their report has not yet been made public but i wait its forth coming with a feeling of confidence that it will fully settle all that i have stated relating to fraud and violence in the state of mississippi in his letter ofthe 26th of july to gov chamberlain he had stated : mississippi is governed to-day by officials chosen through fraud and violence such as scarcely would be accredited to savages much to a less civilized and christian people this last statement come it from whom it may we pronounce in the face of the testimony taken by this committee and not yet printed to be untrue and unwar ranted by the facts disclosed the tone of animosity to the white people of the south which breathes throughout the president's message and letters is utimis takable in his message of july 31 six days subsequent to this letter the presis dent says : the report on mississippi has not yet beeu made public why should he anticipate ? we hold it and : believe it will be so held by right-think ing men everywhere discreditable for the i chief magistrate thus to have exhibited ! such evidence of prejudice against any ! portion of his fellow-citizens it adds j however but another proof to many iv | en heretofore that the heart and mind of i president grant are closed to all sense of j justice where tbe political opponents es pecially in the southern slates are con â– cerned when gov ames took his seat on the 1st day of january 1874 elected in the month of november previous there was not an official of the state who was not a member of the republican party there was not a county official to be appointed by the governor who was not in close i affinity with him in all republican counties and nil were republican in j which negroes were i.i a majority â€” every j official was a member of the same party thus the entire control of the state was in the hands of gov ames and his party 1 associates in all these republican strongholds iu which the charges of tur bulences md misgovern ment are alleged to have existed it is noted that the entire local power was in repbulican hands the minority then speak of the effects of the republican system of misgovern ment upon real estate and property and shows at some length ihat gov ames prosiiuted his office and bargained with appointees and speaks ofthe state mili tia being organized preparatory to the cum|>aign r ath officials being among the mosi notorious and unscrupulous partisans black and white of the state administra tion many of them being unable to read this created great ahum among the white population and violence bloodshed and force as the arbiter of the election were first suggested in a time of profound peace in the state of mississippi by gov ames and his political associates the minority says : to justify any legislation by congress to enforce tli.i fifteenth amendment the obstruction of the right to vote must be for sole reason of race color or previous conditio c.,aud there is no power in the congress to interfere for auv other cause whatever there is not from the beginning to the end of this testimony a single case of the obstruc tion of a voter because he was a colored man a vast majority of the people of mississippi have element that constitutes a good american citizen but they have been victims of misrule which they sought in vain to avoid or remedy the reform ation in lhe legislation and administration of mississippi by the party in control since january of 1876 has been impor tant and marked with great benefits to the entire community tbe minority made a few remarks up on the condition of mississippi in june last saying that no act of a disorderly or turbulent naturo was witnessed by the committee and no signs of enmity or in civility were exhibited : but on the con trary courtesy and respect were on all hands extended to the committee the poverty of the people was apparent in their garb the appearance of their houses and the marked absence of good and com fortable vehicles the only exhibition of pleasure seeking witnessed was by color ed people whose processions passed the commmittee room und whose holiday ex cursions by railway started from the de pot opposite the only cannon sound was from their republican ratification meeting and th'ir's was the only music heard by us in mississippi the poverty of the colored people also was often painfully apparent iu groups of witnesses who clustered upon tbe long galleries wretched in appearace and mis erably clad ; giving to the hotel the ap pearance ofa country alms house in terfereuce by federal authority iti the stato elections and internal atlairs has since the close of the wur frequently taken place and never without deplorable and disastrous results and on their hand the applications of minorities defeated by popular vote to be nevertheless installed in office bas never been denied by federal authorities without such deni.il being fol lowed by beueficicut results such iu terference bas always been followed aud very uaturally by local discontent and disorders as in case of louisiana and alabama while virginia north carolina georgia texas and arkansas are living proofs in their increased prosperi'y and tranquility of the wisdom of non-inter fence the mesimer case opinion of the supreme court a new trial refused monday in the supreme court was filed an opinion 111 this ease declaring that there was no error in the court below justice reade de livered the opinion ofthe court meismer was tried at the last term of the irdell county sup erior court charged with the murder of his mother-in-law mrs sarah heili<r of rowan county the trial was removed from rowan to cabarrus county and thence to iredrell county on the atlidavite of the prisoner he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on the7thof july an appeal to the supreme court for a new trial vacated the sentence the prosecution was conducted bv solicitor v ii h cole aided by r f armfield and w h r u j e y the defence was ably conducted bv t s tucker and j d stephenson who were assigned by the court the case rested solely on circumstantial evidence and many intricate and knotty jaw points presented themselves below we give the opinion of the court refus ing a new trial the effect of which will be the re-sentencing of mesimerat the november term of the iredell superior court : state vs mesimer it is stated in the case that the evidence to connect the defendant with the homicide was entirely circumstantial and that there were forty odd witnesses for the prosecution we have carefully examined the numerous exceptions taken by the defendant to see if any incompetent testimony has been admitted against him and we are obliged to say that we find none the rule in regard tu circumstances is that each circumstance must be as distinctly proved as if the whole case turned upon it and each circumstance so proved must taken in connection with the other circumstances tend to prove the defendant's guilt there i noth ing which indicates that tlie rule was violated on the trial tiie defendant sends up for our consideration the following exceptions : 1 to evidence that the deceased had money without fixing the defendant with knowledge j of it the deceased was the mother of the defen 1 data's wife who a short time before the homi | cide was threatening to leave the defendant ; and go to her mother if he did not provide bet | ter for her ho replied he would provide i better in about a fortnight he then had no j money and left home saving he was going to j hunt work he did not return home until the ; day of the homicide when he brought with him ; some calico and a few other articles and a small sum ol money all of which he gave to his wife saying it was all he had a few days j after the homicide he was seen with money i there was evidence tending to show that j his tracks were seen near the house of the de ceised and there was other evidence tending ! to show that he had been about there the morn j ing of the homicide 1 these circumstances were offered not as of â– themselves proving the guilt of the defendant . but as links in the chain of evidence and it is apparent that they were important 2 the defendant was arrested away from i home and tied ; and while wailing for the i railroad cars he said these men think i am 1 guilty hut i think i can prove that i was at ' china crove that morning this he excepts j to as having been extorted from him by his i situation but the remark was voluntary j there was no threat or promise and no pain inflicted it was true that confessions or de clarations made under arrest ought to be re ceived with caution but still if they are entirely 1 voluntary then can be no objection to them 3 in addressing the jury the solicitor allud ; ed to the fact that the prisoner had not account , ed for having money after the death of the de . ceased when he had none just before the : defendant objected to the remark as improper i his honor told the jury that the law drew no i inference against the defendant for not intro ducing evidence of any fact unless it was ne ' cessary for bisdefedce and peculiarly within his i knowledge in the first place the remarks of the solictor were not objectionable and in the next place his honor's explanation gave to the defendant all the protection to which he wasen j titled there is no error this will be certified aie â€” ral fcruincl j fatal accident from a pistol warning to those who curry concealed weapons night before lust a very respectable 1 young colored man by the name of w 11 ; webb a barber in the employ of scott brown on fayetteville street met his ! death by the accidental discharge of a pistol iu tho following manner 1 from the evidence adduced by the ' coroner's jury at the inquest it appears j that webb had called at the house of sampson brown a colored man living on davie street near tbe old fair ground to see a girl by the name of polly wal ker and after remaining till bid time ou rising from his seat to leave for home a pistol a navy revolver fell from bis pocket to the hearth and fired the ball taking effect in and entering the body of webb in his right side he sat down immediately a.s if nothing hud happened but in a few minutes commenced growing faint and even before preparations could be made to setid for a pliysiciau he had breathed his last yesterday the coroner's jury was sum moned who after viewing the body of the deceased rendered a verdict in accor dance with the facts as above stated the deceased bad come from winston to raleigh a few months ago and had made many friends among the colored people of this place during his short stay among them â€” news we learn from a gentleman of for sythe co who knew webb while there that he was a bad man ; that while wait ing on mr j g lash ho stole several articles of property from his employer among the rest a pistol probably the very oue by which he lost his life ] a new bt;>k president the stock holders of the merchants and farmers national bank have elected dr j ii mcaden to the presidency of the institu tion dr mcaden says the observer is one of the most reliable business men and enterprising citizens we have having become fully acquainted witb the affairs of the bank while one of the directors be is eminently fitted to fill the important office to which he has been called aud we j feel assured that the interests of tbe pub ( lie will be well cared for in his hands an act to chang the time of hold1nu election is this state in the year one tuursanu eiu1i hundred and seventy-six section 1 tkeoci.cral assembly of sorth caroch â€¢ do enact that there shall be an election held on tuesday after the tirst monday in november in t hi year of our lord one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-six forthe following oi'ileers to wit : utem oersor the general assembly for their respective counties and districts a county treasurer register ot deeds county surveyor live count commission ers a coroner and sheriff for their respective coun ties and also for members ot the house of repre sentatives ur the united states congress for their respective districts sec 2 thai there shall be an election held on the bald luesday after the tirst monoaj in november in the year of our lord one thousand eight huudreii and seventy-six for the following officers to wit â– governor lieutenant governor secretary ot state auditor treasurer superintendent of public in structiun and attorney general sec 3 that chapter 5i battle's rc-flsal entitled â€¢ general assembly be amended as fallowings to wit in section ave line two strike out " june and insert Â«â€¢ september in line three strike out seventy-two ami insert u seventy-six : n in sec tion seven line-two strike out july and insert october in line three strikeout seventy-two and insert seventy-six in section eight strike out in lines eight nine ten and eleven the words nrst thursday in july one thousand eight hun dred and seventy-two up to and including the day preceding the first thursday in august one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and in sert the words lirst thursdaj in october one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six up to and including the day precedingthe tuesday afterthe tot monday in november one thousand eight bun ared and seventy-six in section eleven une two strike out the words july next and insert the words october one thousand eight iiuii'imi and seventy-six in section iweiiu-two line four strike oui the words tiieiwranathursaaj m au gust and insert the word vruesday and in same section line one page four hundred and for ty-two battle 3 revlsal strike oui the words se cond thursday in august ami insert the words tuesday after the election in section twenty three lines one and two si like out the words " tlrst monday in september and insert the words " wednesday before the third mondaj innovem ber,"and in lines six and eight strike oui he wool " september and insert the word december in section twenty-four line three strike out the words " seventy-five and insert seventy-six in section thirty-two line two strike out the words " june next and insert the words october one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six sec 4 that chapter one hundred and thirty-two laws otone thousand eight hundred and seventv three and one thousand eight hnndred and seven ty-four entitled an act concerning elections in this state be amended as follows in section one lines three four and five strike out the words â€¢â€¢ hrsl thursday of august in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and every two years thereafter and insert the words tuesday after the first mondayln november in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six in section 1 â– ol said chapter lines one two three and tour strike oui the words flrsl thursdaj in august in the y arof our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and every four years thereafter andlnserl tuesdaj afterthe first monday in november one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six sec 5 that all elections herein ordered shall be conducted in all particulars in su.-ii manner and form and under sucn rules and regulations excepl as 10 tlie time of holding tie same as are pre scribed in chapter fifty-two battle's revlsal en titled general assembly and in chapter one hundred and thlrtj'-two laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and one thou sand eight hundred and seventy-four entitled " an aci concerning elections in this state ratified fourteenth february one thousand elgnt hundred and seventy-four both of which so far as they are not inconsistent with the provlslonsot this act are hereby re-enacted sect thai all officers whose terms of office would expire did the election occur on the flrsl thursdaj in august one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six are hereby authorized and direct ed to hold over in tin same until their succe sors in office are elected and qualified under 1 his act ser 7 thai the secretary of state shall fumlsh the county commissioners of each of iic counties of the state with copies of this bill whose duty it shall be to advertise the same al the court-house door of their respective counties and at each of the voting precincts of the township for three months before the said day of election sees that this act shall be in force from and after the first day of january anno iiomiul oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-six ratified 22d day of march a d 18t5 for the watchman taking care of the baby by g e v john said mn , stubbs lo her husband monday after dinner i have some shopping to do this afternoon and would like fur you to stay at home and take care ofthe baby mr stuhhs would much sooner she had ask ed him to tunnel the pilot mountain hut when he saw a frown gathering on her brow he told her that he would stay putting on her hoiinet and telling mr stubbs that she would not he gone more than an hour at the farthest she started but did not proceed far before she met mrs ( jab who was on her way home from the milliner's and half an hour was spent in talking over the late fashions leaving mrs gab she proceeded on her way and met mrs gossip who it took just one hour to tell her all the latest news arriving at tliu store another hour was consumed in selecting and purchasing a calico dress patern and a card of buttons during hei absence mr stubbs patience was sorely tried for no sooner had she left the house than the baby let in to yelling and all that poor stubbs could do would not pacify it he hammered the bottoms out of two tin pans try ing to make music for it but that only frighten ed th.e baby and made it yell the more then he gut the sugar bowl and fed it sugar until it had an attack of colic which incraescd they oil ing getting the paregoric he undertook to administer a dose of that soothing liquid but just as he was putting the spoon to the baby's mouth it threw up its hands and striking the spoon knocked the contents into its eyes and then the yelling became terrific not knowing what he should do mr stubbs concluded to take the baby over to one of his neighbors and get them to quiet it for bim but just as he got ready to start mrs stubbs return ed â€” after an absence of two hours and 11 half â€” and snatching up the baby soon had it quiet then turning to mr stubbs she told him it was a shame that he couldn't take care of the baby a few minutes while she did a little shopping mr stubbs mule no reply but as he wended his way to the tinner's with two bottomless pans he made a solemn vow to hiraselfthat he would never take care ofthe baby again thieves by instinct we clip the following from the new york herald : it it reported that mr nunn of chi cago asked mr blaine to u-^e bis influ ence with general grant for some purpose or the other mr blaine according to the story replied in these terms : â€” i have no iufluence with the present admin istration no man who is not a thief by instinct this is the most berious con demuatiou ever passed upon rant it is written by the moat popular man iu tbe republican party the uiau who came i within an ace of receiving its nomination for president no date u given to mr blaine's letter so wo do not know wheth er it was written before or after the con vention this puts the republicans in a serious dilemma ihey mu3t say tbat blaine the man whom they wanted to place in the presidency does not speak the truth or else the office holders who now have influence with grant are thieves by in stiuct."â€”ral netcs hillsboro recorder we learn that au involuntary suicide took place iti al amance county last week under the fol lowing circumstances : a dr hooper a demist living in the northern part of the county went to the breakfast table prepared to poison his wife from what reason we have not learned they were seated alone at the able after pouring out the coffee mrs hooper was dispatch ed out of the room on some pretext in her absence her husband poured into her cup a deadly mixture she returned and it happened tint the doctor himself was called from the room for a moment in his absence a fly fell into his cup mrs hooper wife like exchanged cups the dr returned and drunk bis coffee almost at one swallow he at once de tected the singular taste of the beverage aud aeked his wife if she bad changed cups she replied that she had giving the reason for it he exclaimed then i am a dead man and in a few uiiuutefl was a corp-r supreme court court met yesterday at 9 o'clock all ihe justices present except settle resign ed the following cases were argued : state v albeit colbert from guilford attorney general j e bledsoe for tho state a w tourgee for defendant edward belo vs commissioners of forsythe county from davidson con tinued j m mccorkle for plaintiff dillati & gilmer and shipp & bailey for defendants state va william ellwood from meck lenburg attorney geueral and 1 f bledsoe for the state ; shipp & bailey for defendant j.m.howie vs r r rea from mecklenburg clem dowd for plaintiff green and fleming jones & johnston and bnsbee & busbee for defendant p rollins et al vs bishop johnston at al five cases battlo & moidecai and o a moore for defendants r m henry vs j l henry from macon ; battle & moidecai for plaintiff no counsel for defendant â€” ral news remarkable circumstance mrs roney of this county had a child five or six years old that had been sick with sore throat several weeks and ono day last week it seemed to die it had no pulse so far as persons present could discover it was laid out for dead and a coffin made the persons setting up with the corpse grew sleepy and were nodding when suddenly the child threw aside its grave clothes got up from the table where it had been laid and went to the cup board and got something to eat when the parties who came there to set up woko up they found lo their astonishment tho child standing at the cup-board door munching food the astonishment ofthe people present can be better imagined than described it was eating a piece of bread aud as soon as it saw that home one was awake it called loudly for milk such was the superstition that uo ono would for some time touch or go near tho child the mother came in and after some hesitancy caught her hand and the electricity seemed to restore her courage and convince her that it was no ghost after eating it was placed in bed it seems that this sudden exhibition oi strength was a freak of nature for in four hours after the child died indeed this is noidle sensation but vouched for by the best citizens of the heighborhood several of whom were present if we had been interested in the child we should have been afraid to bury it at all until mortification took place there is no telling how much latent life there is iu a child â€” morgctnton blade young man get 1married dr dio lewis having learned the min imum quantity of food on which life cau be sustained advises all young men to marry and settle down in life his idea is tliat until a wan is married his life is lacking in that which best develops his manhood he gives old bachelors some hard rap3 in a letter published in the green bay wis advocate ami then administers this rebuke to that class who are anxious to 6ee the world before marry ing : seeing the world us the young man does who has to earn his living as he goes along amounts to very little what he dues see is nothing that helps him fight the battle of life mure successfully it only keeps him from habits which are iu direct antagonism to a correct happy and successful life and when he gets through knocking about be has nothing to biiow for the misspent years save the habits which he must overcome if he would make anything of himself do you call that gain or ins ? s ? young man take the advice of a man who has kept his 03'ea open for more years than you have lived probably and don't knock around if you think i have overdrawn the picture liok around you and out of the men you know select those who have knocked around and see if they do not bear wit ness to the truth of every assertion i havo made concerning lhe class they represent are they men you envy ? 1 tell you boy9 knocking around makes a man good for nothing else and i take it you have a desire tn be gi-od fur something higher in llie more light â€” gas is only 1 per thou sand feet in chailotte we hope the company will head this way and make a proposition to let our city have a little for tbat price but we have doubt whether our streets would be more luminous then than now as our city officials seem to have economy on the brain even at the lisk of its nigbt-liawke breaking their nicks bv falling into cellars cisterns c ral ""- â€¢/â€¢<*.

the carolina watchman vol vii third series salisbury m c august 17.1876 k0 44 ' â€ž k ., \\ kkkia-j 1 bruner eu and propr t k bruner associate fa .,{ iis.ru u'tion hates : n^vrir payable iln advance 2 00 rer i â€¢-'.â– .' â– , a â€¢â– â€¢ j 2s advertising rates : *- d . .. [ w i publications 1 50 r months or a 3 ear platform ofthe democratic par ty in north carolina adopted by the democratic state con vention at raleigh on 14th june 1876 whereas the republican party of he united states for the la6t sixteen year baa u *& l e complete control of in all its departments nd by its disregard of constitutional limi tation ; by its unequal aud oppressive taxation ; by it8 extravagant and waste fâ€žl expenditures ; by its unwise and mis : hievon financial policy by its unexam pled illici.tl corruption pervading all hcancbee of its administration â€” has broughl difgrace upon our government w d unp iralieled distress upon our people â– ', 1 that in this centennial year of our existence we invite all patriots n ignore all dead issues to disregard the a engendered by the past events am ] 10 unite with us in tbe effort to restore a constitutional honest economical and pore administration of the government aud thus promote the general welfare aud happiness of tbe country â€¢ '. 2 tbat we earnestly and cor ilia v recommend tbe adoption by the people of the amendments tÂ«i the consti tution proposed by the convention of l*>75 and thus largely reduce tbe expenditures of oar state and county governments and simplify their administration so that we oav be enabled to establish a thorough and enlarged system of public schools for the benefit of all the citizens of the state i ',',. that notwithstanding our disappointments and impovished condition we still cherish the north car olina project bo long labored for by more bead sauuders fisher wm ii thomas and others of uniting the harbors of beau fort and wilmington witb the gieat west and for tbe completion of the western north carolina railroad to paint beck and dicktown and of our unfinished rail roads we pledge the continued use of the convict labor of tbe state and of such other judicious legislative aid as will se cure the completion of these great state winks at tbe earliest practicable period 1 4 th.it the people of north carolina now hive it in their power by 111 earnest determinated and unit d effort to relieve our people from the evils of re publican misrule extravagance and cor ruption aud restore the prosperity of our state .' ',. that we denounce official ccnupiiou wherever found and we bold honesty to b the first and highest quali fication for i.llice gov hendricks's letter the enormities of the system that threat ens our instil t/ions ixdiaxapolis july 24 1s7g gentlemen : i have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commu nication in which you have formally no tified tne of my nomination by the na tional democratic convention at st lotus as their candidate for the office of ice-president of the united states it i a nomination which 1 had neither ex pected nor desired ; and yet i recognize j appreciate the high honor done me bf tbe convention the choice of such â€¢Â» body pronounced wiih such unusual uiiaiiimit v and accompanied with eo gen erou an expression of esteem and confi dence ought to out-weigh all merely personal desires and preferences of my wu it is with this feeling and i trust w from a deep sense of public duty bat i now acccept the nomination and all abide the judgment of my country men j j it would have been impossible for me to accept the nomination if i could not warily endorse the platform of the con hjhiou i am grajjfie therefore to be we unequivocally to declare that i agree d jÂ»e principles approve the politics i'd sympathize with iho purposes enun e in that platform * be institutions of our country have wen gorely tried by the exigencies of civ ar > an uince the peace by a selfish * nd corrupt management of public affairs ten has bhamed us before civilized nankiud by unwi8e ai)li lvi \ | egig . tiou every industry and interest of the p eo ple have been made to suffer ; and in e executive departments of the govern e t dishonesty rapacity and venality k av Â« debauched the public service men no * n t0 be unworthy have been pro m h while others have been degraded r fi k dellt y to official duty public office r been made the means of private prof Â«. and the country has been offended to j e > class of turn who boast the friend pol the sworn protectors of the state 5 88 ng fortunes by defrauding the pub treaatuy and by corrupting the ser , 4l " i the people iii such a crisis of je history of the country i rejoice tbat convention at st louis has so nobly ed the standard of refoitn nothing tintl i wdi wilh us or â– vilh our affilil!5 n " ie public conscience shocked by pjj normou8 evils and abuses which mlj 5 ' u " ' jave demanded and com .. '|" : â– (;. uuspaiiing reformation of our tiooal administration in its bead aud ' r members in such a reformation e removal ofa single officer even the eaideut \ b comparatively a trifling â€¢'''â€¢. if the system which he presents has fostered hm as be has ed it ii suffered tg raoiaiit the president alone must not be made the scapegoat for the enormities of the system which infects the public service and threatens the destruction of our institu tions in some respects 1 hold tbat the present executive has been the victim rather than ihe author of that vicious sys tem congressional and party leaders have been stronger than the president no one man could have created it and the removal of no one man can amend it it is thoroughly corrupt and must be s weept remorselessly away by the selection of a government composed of elements entirely new and pledged to radical re form reforms needed the first work of reform must eviden tly be the restoration of the normal oper ation of the constitution of the united states with all its amendments the necessities of war eatinot be pleaded in a time of peace ; the right of local self-gov ernment as guaranteed by the constitution of the u:iiou must be everywhere restor ed and the centrilized almost personal imperialism which has been practised must be done away or the first principles of the republic will be lost our financial system of expedients must be reformed gold and silver are the real standard of values and our national currency will not be a perfect medium of exchange until it shall be convertible at the pleasure of the holders as i have heretofore said no one desires a return to specie payments more earnestly than i do ; but 1 do not believe that it will or can be reached in harmony witb the in terests of the people by artificial measures for the contraction of the 2uÂ«rency any more than i believe that wealth or per manent prosperity can be created by an initiation of the currency the laws of finance cannot be disregarded with im punity the financial policy ofthe gov ern incut if indeed it deserves the name of policy at all has been disregarded of those laws and therefore hasdisturbed commer cial and business confidence as well as hindered a ruturn to specie payments one feature of that policy was the resump tion clause of the act of ls7o which has embarrassed the country by the anticipa tion of a compulsory resumption for which no preparation has been made and with out any assurance tbat would be practi cable the repeal ol that clause is ne cessary that the natural operation of finan cial laws may be restored that the busi ness of the country may be relieved from its disturbing and depressing influence and that a return to specie payments may be facilitated by the substitution of wiser and more prudent legislation which shall mainly rely on a judicious system of pub lic economies and official retrenchments and above all on the promotion of pros perity iu all the industries of the people i do not understand tbe repeal of tbe res utnp tion clause ol the act of 1s75 to be a backward step in our return to specie payments but the recovery of a false step and although the repeal ni ay for a time be prevented yet the determination ofthe democratic party on this subject has now been distinctly declared there should be no hindrances put in the way of a re turn to specie payments as such a hindrance says the platform of the st louis convention we denounce the re sumption clause of the act of 1s7.5 and de mand its repeal i thoroughly believe that by public economy by official retrenchments and by wise finance enabling us to accumulate the precious metals resumption at an early period is possible without produc ing an artificial scarcity of currency or disturbing public or commercial credit and that these reforms together with the restoration of pure government will re store general confidence encourage the useful investment of capital furnish em ployment to labor and relieve tbe coun try from tbe paralysis of hard times oue industries with the industries of the people there have been frequent interferences our platform truly says that many industries have been impoverished to subsidize a few our commerce has been degraded to an inferior position on the high seas ; manufactures bave been diminished ; ag riculture has been embarrassed and tbe distress of the industrial classes demands tbat these things shall be reformed the burdens of the people must also be lighteued by a great change iu our sys tem of public expenses the profligate expenditures which increased taxation from five dollars per capita in 1s60 to eighteen dollars in 1s70 tells its own story of our need of fiscal reform ouv treaties witb foreign powers should also be revised and amended in so far as they leave citizens of foreign birth in any particular less secure in any country on earth than they would be if they had been born on our own soil ; and the ini quitous coolie system which through the agency of wealthy companies imports chinese bondmen aud establishes a species of ciavery aud interferes with the just rewards of labor on our pacific coast should be utterly abolished iu the reform of our civil service i most heartily indorse that section of tho plat form which declares that the civil service ought not to be subject to change at every election and that it ought not to be made the brief reward of party zeal but ought to be awarded for proved com petency and held for fidelity in the public employ i hope never again to sec the cruel and remorseless proscription fair po litical opinions which has disgraced the administration of the last eight years bad as the civil setvice now is as all know it has some meu of tried integrity aud proved ability such men and such men only should be retained in office j but no man should be retained ou any consideration who has prostituted his office to the purposes of partisans intimi dation or compulsion or who bas furnish ed money to corrupt the elections this i to our common schools i have only this to say : that in my judgment the man or party that would involve our schools m political or sectarian controversy is an enemy to the schools the common schools are safer tinder the protecting care of all the people than under the con trol of any party or sect they must be neither sectarian nor partisan and there must be neither division nor niisappro priation of the funds for their support â€” likewise i regard tlie man who would arouse or foster sectional animosities aud antagonisms among his countrymen as a dangerous enemy to his country all the people must be made to feel and know that once more there is established a pur pose and policy under which all citizens of every condition race and color will be secure in the enjoyment of whatever rights the constitution and laws declare or re cognize ; aud that in controversies that may arise the government is not a parti san but within its constitutional authori ty the just and powerful guardian of the lightb and safety of all the strife be tween races will cease as soon as the power of the evil is taken away from a party that makes political gafin out of sceues of violence and bloodshed and the constitutional authority is placed iu the hands of men whose political welfare re*a quires peace and good order shall be pre served everywhere gov tilden it will be seen gentlemen that i am in eutire accord with the platform of the convention by which i have been nom inated as a candidate for the office of vice-president of the united states â€” permit me in conclusion to express my satisfaction at being associated with a candidate for the presidency who is first among his equals as a representative of the spirit and of the achievements of ro form in his official career as the ex eciuive of the great state of new york he has in a comparatively short period reformed the public service and reduced i the public burdens so as to have earned al once the gratitude ol bis siate and the admiration of the country the peo ple kuow bim to be thoroughly in ear nest ; he has shown himself to be possess ed of powers and qualities which fit him in an eminent degree for the great work of reformation which this couulry now needs ; and if lie shall be chosen by un people to the high office of president of | tbe united states i believe that the day i of his inaugural ion will bo the beginning j of a new era of peace juri 13 and pros i perity in all departments of our govern : ment i am gentlemen your obedient servant thomas a hendricks to the hon john a mcclernand chair man and others of the committee of the national democratic convention the mississippi trouble two reports by tiie con gress inquiry committee the republican majority report charg ing the disorders to democrats â€” the very different vie/v taken by the minority washington aug 7 the report presented by senator bout well in behalf ' of the majority of the mississippi inves ! tigating committee reaches the conclu sion that tbe present legislature of mis sissippi was elected by fraud and intimi dation and is therefore not a legal body j the resignation of gov ames was ille gally effected by this body ; that gov ames is not amenable to any just charge affecting his integrity or fitness a3 chief magistrate : that there was no foundation for reports that negroes were armed or were arming and massing in large bodies for the destruction of the whites there being no such organizations and tbe ne 1 groes were not armed generally : that i outrages were perpetrated iu tbe counties of alcorn amite chickasaw claiborne clay copiah de soto grenada hinds holmes kemper lee loundes madison marshall monroe moxubce rankin scott warren washington and yazoo : and that the democratic victory in the state was due to the outrages so perpetuated if in the counties named there had been a free election republican candidates would have beeu chosen ; that the state of mississippi is at present under the control of political organizations com posed largely of armed men whose com mon purpose is to deprive the negroes of tho free exercise of their right of suffrage that tliese organizations will if left to themselves retain control by force and fraud ; that the powers of the national government will be invoked and should be exercised in order to make good its guarantee of a republican form of gov ernment to the state of mississippi tbe report concludes : the measures necessary and possible in an exigency are three first laws may be passed by congress for the protection of citizens in the respective states ; second states in anarchy or wherein the affairs are controlled by bodies of armed men should be denied representation in congress ; third the constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government to every state will require the united states if these disorders increase or even continue and all milder measures shall prove ineffectual to re mand the state to a territorial condition and through a system of public education and kin dred means change the ideas of tho inhabitants and reconstruct the government on a republi can basis the minority of the committee messrs bayard and mcdonald present their views at length tbey bay that while writing thenx lhev re wi .:*-â– ' ..*â€¢ - j is done and has been done in almost every county of the land it ia a blight upon the morals of the country and ought to be reformed our schools of sectional contentions and in respect regret the message of the president of july 31 transmitting to congress certain correspondence relating to the murders lately committed at hamburg ia which he says : but recently a committee of the senate of the united states visited the state of mississip pi to take testimony on the subject of frauds and violence in elections their report has not yet been made public but i wait its forth coming with a feeling of confidence that it will fully settle all that i have stated relating to fraud and violence in the state of mississippi in his letter ofthe 26th of july to gov chamberlain he had stated : mississippi is governed to-day by officials chosen through fraud and violence such as scarcely would be accredited to savages much to a less civilized and christian people this last statement come it from whom it may we pronounce in the face of the testimony taken by this committee and not yet printed to be untrue and unwar ranted by the facts disclosed the tone of animosity to the white people of the south which breathes throughout the president's message and letters is utimis takable in his message of july 31 six days subsequent to this letter the presis dent says : the report on mississippi has not yet beeu made public why should he anticipate ? we hold it and : believe it will be so held by right-think ing men everywhere discreditable for the i chief magistrate thus to have exhibited ! such evidence of prejudice against any ! portion of his fellow-citizens it adds j however but another proof to many iv | en heretofore that the heart and mind of i president grant are closed to all sense of j justice where tbe political opponents es pecially in the southern slates are con â– cerned when gov ames took his seat on the 1st day of january 1874 elected in the month of november previous there was not an official of the state who was not a member of the republican party there was not a county official to be appointed by the governor who was not in close i affinity with him in all republican counties and nil were republican in j which negroes were i.i a majority â€” every j official was a member of the same party thus the entire control of the state was in the hands of gov ames and his party 1 associates in all these republican strongholds iu which the charges of tur bulences md misgovern ment are alleged to have existed it is noted that the entire local power was in repbulican hands the minority then speak of the effects of the republican system of misgovern ment upon real estate and property and shows at some length ihat gov ames prosiiuted his office and bargained with appointees and speaks ofthe state mili tia being organized preparatory to the cum|>aign r ath officials being among the mosi notorious and unscrupulous partisans black and white of the state administra tion many of them being unable to read this created great ahum among the white population and violence bloodshed and force as the arbiter of the election were first suggested in a time of profound peace in the state of mississippi by gov ames and his political associates the minority says : to justify any legislation by congress to enforce tli.i fifteenth amendment the obstruction of the right to vote must be for sole reason of race color or previous conditio c.,aud there is no power in the congress to interfere for auv other cause whatever there is not from the beginning to the end of this testimony a single case of the obstruc tion of a voter because he was a colored man a vast majority of the people of mississippi have element that constitutes a good american citizen but they have been victims of misrule which they sought in vain to avoid or remedy the reform ation in lhe legislation and administration of mississippi by the party in control since january of 1876 has been impor tant and marked with great benefits to the entire community tbe minority made a few remarks up on the condition of mississippi in june last saying that no act of a disorderly or turbulent naturo was witnessed by the committee and no signs of enmity or in civility were exhibited : but on the con trary courtesy and respect were on all hands extended to the committee the poverty of the people was apparent in their garb the appearance of their houses and the marked absence of good and com fortable vehicles the only exhibition of pleasure seeking witnessed was by color ed people whose processions passed the commmittee room und whose holiday ex cursions by railway started from the de pot opposite the only cannon sound was from their republican ratification meeting and th'ir's was the only music heard by us in mississippi the poverty of the colored people also was often painfully apparent iu groups of witnesses who clustered upon tbe long galleries wretched in appearace and mis erably clad ; giving to the hotel the ap pearance ofa country alms house in terfereuce by federal authority iti the stato elections and internal atlairs has since the close of the wur frequently taken place and never without deplorable and disastrous results and on their hand the applications of minorities defeated by popular vote to be nevertheless installed in office bas never been denied by federal authorities without such deni.il being fol lowed by beueficicut results such iu terference bas always been followed aud very uaturally by local discontent and disorders as in case of louisiana and alabama while virginia north carolina georgia texas and arkansas are living proofs in their increased prosperi'y and tranquility of the wisdom of non-inter fence the mesimer case opinion of the supreme court a new trial refused monday in the supreme court was filed an opinion 111 this ease declaring that there was no error in the court below justice reade de livered the opinion ofthe court meismer was tried at the last term of the irdell county sup erior court charged with the murder of his mother-in-law mrs sarah heilik president the stock holders of the merchants and farmers national bank have elected dr j ii mcaden to the presidency of the institu tion dr mcaden says the observer is one of the most reliable business men and enterprising citizens we have having become fully acquainted witb the affairs of the bank while one of the directors be is eminently fitted to fill the important office to which he has been called aud we j feel assured that the interests of tbe pub ( lie will be well cared for in his hands an act to chang the time of hold1nu election is this state in the year one tuursanu eiu1i hundred and seventy-six section 1 tkeoci.cral assembly of sorth caroch â€¢ do enact that there shall be an election held on tuesday after the tirst monday in november in t hi year of our lord one thousand eight hundred aud seventy-six forthe following oi'ileers to wit : utem oersor the general assembly for their respective counties and districts a county treasurer register ot deeds county surveyor live count commission ers a coroner and sheriff for their respective coun ties and also for members ot the house of repre sentatives ur the united states congress for their respective districts sec 2 thai there shall be an election held on the bald luesday after the tirst monoaj in november in the year of our lord one thousand eight huudreii and seventy-six for the following officers to wit â– governor lieutenant governor secretary ot state auditor treasurer superintendent of public in structiun and attorney general sec 3 that chapter 5i battle's rc-flsal entitled â€¢ general assembly be amended as fallowings to wit in section ave line two strike out " june and insert Â«â€¢ september in line three strike out seventy-two ami insert u seventy-six : n in sec tion seven line-two strike out july and insert october in line three strikeout seventy-two and insert seventy-six in section eight strike out in lines eight nine ten and eleven the words nrst thursday in july one thousand eight hun dred and seventy-two up to and including the day preceding the first thursday in august one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two and in sert the words lirst thursdaj in october one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six up to and including the day precedingthe tuesday afterthe tot monday in november one thousand eight bun ared and seventy-six in section eleven une two strike out the words july next and insert the words october one thousand eight iiuii'imi and seventy-six in section iweiiu-two line four strike oui the words tiieiwranathursaaj m au gust and insert the word vruesday and in same section line one page four hundred and for ty-two battle 3 revlsal strike oui the words se cond thursday in august ami insert the words tuesday after the election in section twenty three lines one and two si like out the words " tlrst monday in september and insert the words " wednesday before the third mondaj innovem ber,"and in lines six and eight strike oui he wool " september and insert the word december in section twenty-four line three strike out the words " seventy-five and insert seventy-six in section thirty-two line two strike out the words " june next and insert the words october one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six sec 4 that chapter one hundred and thirty-two laws otone thousand eight hundred and seventv three and one thousand eight hnndred and seven ty-four entitled an act concerning elections in this state be amended as follows in section one lines three four and five strike out the words â€¢â€¢ hrsl thursday of august in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and every two years thereafter and insert the words tuesday after the first mondayln november in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six in section 1 â– ol said chapter lines one two three and tour strike oui the words flrsl thursdaj in august in the y arof our lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and every four years thereafter andlnserl tuesdaj afterthe first monday in november one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six sec 5 that all elections herein ordered shall be conducted in all particulars in su.-ii manner and form and under sucn rules and regulations excepl as 10 tlie time of holding tie same as are pre scribed in chapter fifty-two battle's revlsal en titled general assembly and in chapter one hundred and thlrtj'-two laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and one thou sand eight hundred and seventy-four entitled " an aci concerning elections in this state ratified fourteenth february one thousand elgnt hundred and seventy-four both of which so far as they are not inconsistent with the provlslonsot this act are hereby re-enacted sect thai all officers whose terms of office would expire did the election occur on the flrsl thursdaj in august one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six are hereby authorized and direct ed to hold over in tin same until their succe sors in office are elected and qualified under 1 his act ser 7 thai the secretary of state shall fumlsh the county commissioners of each of iic counties of the state with copies of this bill whose duty it shall be to advertise the same al the court-house door of their respective counties and at each of the voting precincts of the township for three months before the said day of election sees that this act shall be in force from and after the first day of january anno iiomiul oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-six ratified 22d day of march a d 18t5 for the watchman taking care of the baby by g e v john said mn , stubbs lo her husband monday after dinner i have some shopping to do this afternoon and would like fur you to stay at home and take care ofthe baby mr stuhhs would much sooner she had ask ed him to tunnel the pilot mountain hut when he saw a frown gathering on her brow he told her that he would stay putting on her hoiinet and telling mr stubbs that she would not he gone more than an hour at the farthest she started but did not proceed far before she met mrs ( jab who was on her way home from the milliner's and half an hour was spent in talking over the late fashions leaving mrs gab she proceeded on her way and met mrs gossip who it took just one hour to tell her all the latest news arriving at tliu store another hour was consumed in selecting and purchasing a calico dress patern and a card of buttons during hei absence mr stubbs patience was sorely tried for no sooner had she left the house than the baby let in to yelling and all that poor stubbs could do would not pacify it he hammered the bottoms out of two tin pans try ing to make music for it but that only frighten ed th.e baby and made it yell the more then he gut the sugar bowl and fed it sugar until it had an attack of colic which incraescd they oil ing getting the paregoric he undertook to administer a dose of that soothing liquid but just as he was putting the spoon to the baby's mouth it threw up its hands and striking the spoon knocked the contents into its eyes and then the yelling became terrific not knowing what he should do mr stubbs concluded to take the baby over to one of his neighbors and get them to quiet it for bim but just as he got ready to start mrs stubbs return ed â€” after an absence of two hours and 11 half â€” and snatching up the baby soon had it quiet then turning to mr stubbs she told him it was a shame that he couldn't take care of the baby a few minutes while she did a little shopping mr stubbs mule no reply but as he wended his way to the tinner's with two bottomless pans he made a solemn vow to hiraselfthat he would never take care ofthe baby again thieves by instinct we clip the following from the new york herald : it it reported that mr nunn of chi cago asked mr blaine to u-^e bis influ ence with general grant for some purpose or the other mr blaine according to the story replied in these terms : â€” i have no iufluence with the present admin istration no man who is not a thief by instinct this is the most berious con demuatiou ever passed upon rant it is written by the moat popular man iu tbe republican party the uiau who came i within an ace of receiving its nomination for president no date u given to mr blaine's letter so wo do not know wheth er it was written before or after the con vention this puts the republicans in a serious dilemma ihey mu3t say tbat blaine the man whom they wanted to place in the presidency does not speak the truth or else the office holders who now have influence with grant are thieves by in stiuct."â€”ral netcs hillsboro recorder we learn that au involuntary suicide took place iti al amance county last week under the fol lowing circumstances : a dr hooper a demist living in the northern part of the county went to the breakfast table prepared to poison his wife from what reason we have not learned they were seated alone at the able after pouring out the coffee mrs hooper was dispatch ed out of the room on some pretext in her absence her husband poured into her cup a deadly mixture she returned and it happened tint the doctor himself was called from the room for a moment in his absence a fly fell into his cup mrs hooper wife like exchanged cups the dr returned and drunk bis coffee almost at one swallow he at once de tected the singular taste of the beverage aud aeked his wife if she bad changed cups she replied that she had giving the reason for it he exclaimed then i am a dead man and in a few uiiuutefl was a corp-r supreme court court met yesterday at 9 o'clock all ihe justices present except settle resign ed the following cases were argued : state v albeit colbert from guilford attorney general j e bledsoe for tho state a w tourgee for defendant edward belo vs commissioners of forsythe county from davidson con tinued j m mccorkle for plaintiff dillati & gilmer and shipp & bailey for defendants state va william ellwood from meck lenburg attorney geueral and 1 f bledsoe for the state ; shipp & bailey for defendant j.m.howie vs r r rea from mecklenburg clem dowd for plaintiff green and fleming jones & johnston and bnsbee & busbee for defendant p rollins et al vs bishop johnston at al five cases battlo & moidecai and o a moore for defendants r m henry vs j l henry from macon ; battle & moidecai for plaintiff no counsel for defendant â€” ral news remarkable circumstance mrs roney of this county had a child five or six years old that had been sick with sore throat several weeks and ono day last week it seemed to die it had no pulse so far as persons present could discover it was laid out for dead and a coffin made the persons setting up with the corpse grew sleepy and were nodding when suddenly the child threw aside its grave clothes got up from the table where it had been laid and went to the cup board and got something to eat when the parties who came there to set up woko up they found lo their astonishment tho child standing at the cup-board door munching food the astonishment ofthe people present can be better imagined than described it was eating a piece of bread aud as soon as it saw that home one was awake it called loudly for milk such was the superstition that uo ono would for some time touch or go near tho child the mother came in and after some hesitancy caught her hand and the electricity seemed to restore her courage and convince her that it was no ghost after eating it was placed in bed it seems that this sudden exhibition oi strength was a freak of nature for in four hours after the child died indeed this is noidle sensation but vouched for by the best citizens of the heighborhood several of whom were present if we had been interested in the child we should have been afraid to bury it at all until mortification took place there is no telling how much latent life there is iu a child â€” morgctnton blade young man get 1married dr dio lewis having learned the min imum quantity of food on which life cau be sustained advises all young men to marry and settle down in life his idea is tliat until a wan is married his life is lacking in that which best develops his manhood he gives old bachelors some hard rap3 in a letter published in the green bay wis advocate ami then administers this rebuke to that class who are anxious to 6ee the world before marry ing : seeing the world us the young man does who has to earn his living as he goes along amounts to very little what he dues see is nothing that helps him fight the battle of life mure successfully it only keeps him from habits which are iu direct antagonism to a correct happy and successful life and when he gets through knocking about be has nothing to biiow for the misspent years save the habits which he must overcome if he would make anything of himself do you call that gain or ins ? s ? young man take the advice of a man who has kept his 03'ea open for more years than you have lived probably and don't knock around if you think i have overdrawn the picture liok around you and out of the men you know select those who have knocked around and see if they do not bear wit ness to the truth of every assertion i havo made concerning lhe class they represent are they men you envy ? 1 tell you boy9 knocking around makes a man good for nothing else and i take it you have a desire tn be gi-od fur something higher in llie more light â€” gas is only 1 per thou sand feet in chailotte we hope the company will head this way and make a proposition to let our city have a little for tbat price but we have doubt whether our streets would be more luminous then than now as our city officials seem to have economy on the brain even at the lisk of its nigbt-liawke breaking their nicks bv falling into cellars cisterns c ral ""- â€¢/â€¢